Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:39:53 +0100 From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USE_TEX question Message-ID: <CADLo838jR1gnQe=Q_FWyVE_9rmHK4vfP11zLLb5i91quif87YA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <518BE9A8.2070704@missouri.edu> References: <518BDE81.3060008@missouri.edu> <CADLo839cAwZyBNejTGZxjbZC_C6UWQhRGTwcdUxbdrFWGEPvbQ@mail.gmail.com> <518BE9A8.2070704@missouri.edu>
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On 9 May 2013 19:23, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:
> On 05/09/13 13:15, Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> On 9 May 2013 18:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I have a port, math/sage, which now contains in Makefile the line
>>> USE_TEX= tetex
>>>
>>> I have intalled the texlive ports. So now if I try to install math/sage,
>>> it
>>> gives me error messages about CONFLICTS, which I think arise from the
>>> fact
>>> that math/sage thinks that it has to first install tetex, and this
>>> conflict
>>> with various texlive ports.
>>>
>>> But, math/sage is TEX agnostic. It doesn't care whether it is tetex or
>>> texlive that is installed. All it really wants to know is if there is a
>>> useable latex in PATH.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if there was a USE_TEX=yes option, or something like
>>> that,
>>> which I could put into the math/sage port.
>>
>>
>> USE_TEX=${TEX_DEFAULT} should work fine-- have you tried that?
>>
>> Chris
>
>
> Ah, yes. And you have to set TEX_DEFAULT in /etc/make.conf as well.
>
No, you shouldn't. Remember make evaluates lazily.
Chris
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